# reinvent State mottos **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 5, 2001, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316 "2001-07-05T08:17:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/1 "2001-07-05T08:17:14Z")
I collect state mottos. but I have grown bored of them, all logical and all. 9well, most anyway) tell me new ones, please. Texas: The Crazy Glue state. ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/2 "2001-07-05T08:23:57Z")
Washington, The Puddle ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/3 "2001-07-05T08:27:19Z")
**Oregon** : _The State That Keeps On Giving_ **Massachusetts** : _The Do-Me State_ **Wisconsin** : _Dammit California, Stop Trying To Steal Our Schtick! It’s All We’ve Got! Can’t You Guys Stick With The Whole Sunshine Thing?_ ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/4 "2001-07-05T08:28:24Z")
thought of another one, sorry. **California** : _The Golden Shower State_ ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/5 "2001-07-05T08:53:07Z")
**Delaware** - Yeah, we’re still here. It’s still just too easy to pick on Delaware. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/6 "2001-07-05T09:09:25Z")
**Hawaii** pa pa pa u mau mau, pa pa pa u mau mau You know the toon. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/7 "2001-07-05T09:33:40Z")
**Georgia** (Atlanta): Redneck and trying to hide it. **Georgia** (the rest of the state): Redneck and proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/8 "2001-07-05T09:44:01Z")
**Rhode Island** : _just a speed bump on the way to Cape Cod._ ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/9 "2001-07-05T09:50:10Z")
[OTS] I once saw an inane little cartoon that I couldn’t stop laughing at. There’s a guy in a car driving up to a sign that says: “Welcome to Rhode Island. Watch your head!” [/OTS] Or, how about: **Rhode Island** : _Make Us An Offer!_ ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/10 "2001-07-05T09:58:08Z")
**Alaska** - We are NOT located off the California coastline. **North Carolina** - We’re not cold and desolate like that other ‘North’ state. ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/11 "2001-07-05T13:10:00Z")
Texas: Home of moron presidents and dead inmates. 🙂 I am allowed to say that as a former Texan. West Virginia: The Relative State. HUGS! Sqrl ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/12 "2001-07-05T13:35:46Z")
Minnesota, the cold, buggy, inhospitable state. Don’t move here. No, really! ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/13 "2001-07-05T13:46:43Z")
In honor of my home state, and my current state: **New York** - The Empire State. You got a problem with that? **Alabama** - Thank God for Mississippi. ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/14 "2001-07-05T13:56:18Z")
Wyoming - The Circus has been here… _ **twice** _. 😃 Rhode Island - You either have money or you don’t… deal with it. Delaware - Mom! New Jersey is on my side again! Alabama - The Nation’s leading producer of ugly people. Kentucky - Four words… “Age of Consent: 14” [sub]Well… I think I’m funny.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/15 "2001-07-05T13:57:25Z")
Virginia: The GunRack State. Ohio: Only those born here pronounce it “AHIA”. Vermont: The State that makes New Hampshire nervous. (Kudos to the Drew Carey Show for THAT one!) New York: We don’t ALL live in New York City, you know! Maine: Ah-yup. Massachusetts: The Lobstah and Chowdah State. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/16 "2001-07-05T14:20:02Z")
A few for my beloved home - Virginia - What? The 21st Century already? Virginia - Who were your mother’s people, again? Virginia - Pave Your Way to Prosperity Virginia - Second Only To Texas in Executions, But We’re Trying Virginia - Home of the Republicrat Party Virginia - No, We Don’t Want West Virginia Back - Thanks for Asking ---
**Author:** ![unixrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3ec8ea/32.png) [@unixrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unixrat)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/17 "2001-07-05T14:45:07Z")
**Minnesota** - Nine months of snow and three months of rough sledding. **South Dakota** - Not as crazy as Montana. **Montana** - Not as crazy as Monta-Damn! ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/18 "2001-07-05T14:55:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nymysys \* > \*\*It’s still just too easy to pick on Delaware. \*\* 😛 **Delaware** : Still more chickens than people. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/19 "2001-07-05T15:08:50Z")
**Georgia** : Anything for a Buck ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316/20 "2001-07-05T15:14:06Z")
**Connecticut:** The State You Drive Through to Get To New England. **Indiana:** The State You Drive Through to Get to Chicago. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reinvent-state-mottos/71316.md?page=2)